The military backdrop was ever-present in the women's magazines.

Women's magazine.

Just to show that the Germans and their anti-Semitic, anti-Slav allies were not alone in their ability to generate national stereotype images in the cause of propaganda - here is a British cartoonist's take on the suggestions of Vichy French Prime Minister Pierre Laval's that "France" and Germany should establish a "collaboration", and even a military alliance (the "Daily Mirror" cartoonist "Zec", nome de plume of Phillip Zec).  Nothing came of these suggestions, but they offended his government colleagues and Pétain as much as they offended the Allies, and contributed to Pétain's dismissal of Laval from government shortly after.  Laval returned as Vichy prime minister in April, 1942 following pressure on Pétain from the Germans.  He continued in this post to the end, progressively more enmeshed in the complications of trading "collaboration" with the Germans for the (ever more illusory) preservation of a degree of Vichy control over the French administration.  Laval was convicted of a number of counts amounting to treason in 1945, and the sentence of death was executed by firing squad at Fresnes Prison, Paris, on 15 October, 1945.  Best regards, JR.

The Eternal ... Frog ?

Hitler salutes the troops on one cover of the women's magazine.